Background and activities
How to improve surgical safety by letting surgeons train in a risk-free environment outside of the operating room using simulators. Cecilie Våpenstad is doing research on transfer of skills from training on simulators, competancy based training and simulated patient-specific rehearsal.
Fields of interests: Skills training in minimally invasive surgery, Medical Imaging (x-ray, ultrasound), social learning
Languages: Norwegian: Mother tongue English, French, German: Fluent
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Optimal timing of assessment tasks depending on experience level of surgical trainees. MITAT. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies.
- (2017) Psychomotor skills assessment by motion analysis in minimally invasive surgery on an animal organ. MITAT. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies. vol. 26 (4).
- (2017) MIIP: A web-based platform for medical image interpretation training and evaluation focusing on ultrasound. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging. vol. 10138.
- (2017) Lack of transfer of skills after virtual reality simulator training with haptic feedback. MITAT. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies. vol. 26 (6).
- (2015) CustusX: an open-source research platform for image-guided therapy. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. vol. 11 (4).
- (2013) A study of psychomotor skills in minimally invasive surgery: what differentiates expert and nonexpert performance. Surgical Endoscopy. vol. 27 (3).
- (2013) Procedural virtual reality simulation in minimally invasive surgery. Surgical Endoscopy. vol. 27 (2).
- (2013) Limitations of haptic feedback devices on construct validity of the LapSim® virtual reality simulator. Surgical Endoscopy. vol. 27 (4).
- (2013) Perceiving haptic feedback in virtual reality simulators. Surgical Endoscopy. vol. 27 (7).
- (2012) Navigated laparoscopic ultrasound in abdominal soft tissue surgery: technological overview and perspectives. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. vol. 7 (4).
- (2010) Construct validity of two modules on a virtual reality laparoscopic training simulator. MITAT. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies. vol. 19.
- (2010) Laparoscopic ultrasound: a survey of its current and future use, requirements, and integration with navigation technology. Surgical Endoscopy. vol. 24 (12).